Let One explain. One was born fantastically superior to, well, anyone else One can think of. No, except Mama and Papa and Nanny and Spike Milligan; oh, and that Dutch-sounding guru chappie I knew for a while, who would be a teeny bit miffed if One didn’t recognise their status. Goodness knows what Nanny would have done to me. But One digresses, as so often. The thing is, One gets rather bored with all this waiting for kingship. Unlike the rest of you ordinary mortals, One has done Oneself out of so many actual things to do Oneself – like dressing, shopping, driving, digging holes for plants, visiting the cash-machine – that One has had to write letters, longhand – yes, Oneself! – to some of Mama’s ministers about things that really, really matter. One thinks immediately of architecture. It’s obvious to any man of unparallelled culture like Oneself that Britain should be exclusively populated by buildings in the neo-Tudor style. Get rid of everything else. And One has told them so. It’s not political, is it? It’s sound advice from the High Ground Highgrove perspective. And what’s more, it’s a salutary experience for those ministers to spend their time responding to One. And that Judge chappie had the affrontery to suggest that One’s correspondence with them was training for One to become King. On the contrary, One is training ministers in preparation for One’s accession. But the Judge did get something right in this case: One’s private letters are none of the plebs lower classes One’s subjects’ damn business. And when One accedes, One will rule. Rule, One says! (sounds of smashing china, screaming and soothing words from minions)
Boadicea's Chariot 
It was Charles’s (and our) misfortune that he was borne into a role for which he is totally unsuited. Writing letters to ministers is a fairly harmless occupation even if you are the heir to the throne. It’s a pity they can’t be published though, if done in book form it would have been a best seller.
Haven’t the Queen Mum’s letters just been made public?
OZ
I’m of the opinion that private correspondence should remain just that: private. If it is required to be produced for some reason in a court of law then fair enough.
I also agree with HRH’s views on modern architecture.
Janus.
By custom the views of the monarch in her weekly meetings with the PM remain private, so I don’t see why her heir’s views should be made public unless he wishes them so to be.
Just reading.
Janus said, “I’ll shock you with a terrible revelation: I know I’m superior.” 🙂
Now he’s saying ,”One was born fantastically superior to, well, anyone else One can think of.”
So who is the more superior and can we cope with all this superiority?
He really isn’t living in the real world is he. However if the letters are private then they should stay private.
Minty I cannot agree with his views on modern architecture. Stand underneath the Shard or view it from the M25 or M20 it is brilliant, the Gherkin is magnificent I even like the GLA building. All new and quirky and a far cry from some of the old outdated monoliths that abound our towns and cities.
I expect there was uproar when that upstart Wren proposed a new rounded Cathedral for the City.
Sheona, it’s all relative and mine aren’t as superior as his – who are practically divine in their pretensions..
Tehehehe! I added a ‘photography’ tag and caught a few aliens who claim to like this! One must have fans after all.
Janus, since none of you are Scots, you can’t really be superior. Well known fact!
Sheona, even Mr Mackie has admitted that the ‘English are best’, so whichever way you look at it, I who am 50/50 Anglo-Scot must be the ultimate in superiority; not that anybody here doubts that fact.
Charlie Boy cannot be stupid, Prince or not, he would not have been allowed to fly helicopters or captain a Navy ship otherwise. He is, however, rather dangerous, holding the views that he does which do not take into account that the world has moved on since the 1950s. While I think the UK would be much the poorer if the Monarchy was to disappear, I think if he does ascend to the throne, he could well be the cause of its downfall..
Either of his kids would be a far better bet as the next Monarch.
Blimey. I missed this “superior bit”, but since I’m English with some Irish ancestry, and a possible Nordic connection, I think I’ll just sink into obscurity here.
FEEG, I think one of the undoubted charms of the monarchy is that they move with the times, but very slowly. This is good, in my opinion.
Rick.
I know, I’m hopelessly and resolutely against modern architecture. I doubt I’ll live long enough to think the examples you cite are anything other than dreadful. I know it’s a fault, but it’s how I feel. 😦
Ah well Minty, if we all agreed it would be a boring world. I look at some of the buildings erected in the 60’s and think yeuk. Older buildings may look good but are not fit for purpose today in many cases. My office is an example, an 1850’s building in a high street, shop downstairs flat (now my office) upstairs. Looks nice but very impractical and cold.
Sipu, Mr Mackie is from Edinburgh. As any Glaswegian will tell you, their opinion doesn’t count!
Q What is the best thing to come out of Edinburgh?
A The train to Glasgow.
Rick.
Yes, this is the price one pays, I suppose. My current house was built in 1876, and is much the same. It looks charming and its proportions are elegant, but it’s cold, and quite difficult to live in, in many ways. It could be updated internally, but it would cost a fortune and in some ways it would spoil it for me.
FEEG, be careful what you wish for! (“Either of his kids would be a far better bet as the next Monarch”) Wills seems a nice fella but Harry seems inclined to bare his soul at the drop of a pant.
The word is that Big Ears will be King George VII, choosing to avoid being Charles III (orf with One’s head) in favour of hereditary insanity. Good choice.
Arrers, how true! The cortège is now passing Pudding Lane where a careless baker is setting fire to his bakery. That should get rid of the plague alright.
Ah, well. She’s no longer likely to rule, is she? And she never did!
Sheona, not much I can add to that except 🙂
And of course we all know what Samuel Johnson said about the fairest prospect ever seen by a Scotchman!